Oleksandr Stetsiuk
Oleksandr Stetsiuk (1941–2007) was a Ukrainian composer, teacher and conductor. He was born in the village of Bilokorovychi in Zhytomyr Oblast and died in Zhytomyr. He was a member of the Union of Composers of Ukraine and was named an Honoured Artist of Ukraine.
In 1960, Stetsiuk graduated from the Zhytomyr Music College named after Viktor Kosenko, where he studied trumpet with Viktor Parzhytskyi. He later studied composition at the Kazan State Conservatory with Professor Albert Lehman.
From 1960 to 1963, he taught at the cultural-education college in Zhytomyr. He then served as concertmaster at the Zhytomyr Music and Drama Theatre from 1963 to 1965. From 1965, he taught at the Zhytomyr Music College. His students included Anatolii Beloshytskyi, Serhii Zhukov, Alex Cheskis, Stanislav Olshevskyi, Olha Korovyna-Harris, Oleksandr Khodakovskyi, Yevhen Stetsiuk, Dmytro Stetsiuk and Serhii Yarunskyi.
In his final years, Stetsiuk was head of music and conductor at the Ivan Kocherha Zhytomyr Music and Drama Theatre. He wrote extensive theatre music and reorchestrated the scores of several older productions.
His output included symphonic, choral, chamber vocal and instrumental music. His works include the 1971 ballet Three Fat Men, based on a tale by Yuri Olesha, and its symphonic suite; the 1968 cantata Song of the Stormy Petrel; the 1974 poem The Commissar's Voice, to words by Robert Rozhdestvensky; My Land, a vocal-symphonic work of 1976; and a 1985 concerto for trumpet and orchestra. He also composed works for violin, cello, flute, clarinet, trumpet and wind orchestra.
The Zhytomyr Music Spring festival is held in Zhytomyr in his memory.